> In addition to the ones mentioned so far, how about
Robert Terrall, who
> wrote as Robert Kyle and John Gonzales in addition to
his Brett Halliday
> work; John B. West (was he the first black PI writer,
even though his PI
> wasn't black?); Ed Lacy (speaking of black PIs); W.T.
Ballard, both as
> himself and as Neil McNeil; Talmage Powell, with the
Ed Rivers books;
> Milton K. Ozaki; Cleve Adams . . . I know I'm
forgetting some good ones.
> And I also enjoyed the Steve Bentley books by E.
Howard Hunt writing as
> Robert Dietrich, even though Bentley wasn't actually
a PI. But where
> else are you going to find books about a two-fisted,
crime-busting
> Certified Public Accountant?
If I can find all these books, I'll have go to a desert
island to find
the time to read them ! Well, a desert island isn't that
hardboiled a
location. Maybe a cheapo hotel in the Lower East Side,
complete with fleas
and bugs, or a motel lost in the woods would be a fitting
hideout after I
get hold of Gary's collection.... Hmmm. There's a thought
!
Robert Terrall/John Gonzales is the only writer among those
listed above
I know about. I've got an interview of him somewhere in my
bookcases,
but I haven't read his novels. Could somebody provide more
details about
the others ?
Laurent
________
"It was his story against mine, but of course I told my story
better"
Humphrey Bogart in _In A Lonely Place',
From Hardboiled, by Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa
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